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In this English lesson, we're going to learn some very common idioms and expressions using the colour BLUE, such as "feeling blue", "once in a blue moon" and "appear out of the blue". Do you want to improve your English today? Then visit: https://www.anglopod.com/ to learn English ON DEMAND.0:07 looking / feeling blue0:40 the winter blues1:01 once in a blue moon1:22 appear out of the blue1:43 complain until you're blue in the faceLEARN ENGLISH with Dan:https://www.anglopod.com/https://www.youtube.com/@anglopodhttps://instagram.com/anglopod

In this English lesson, we're going to learn some very common idioms and expressions using the colour WHITE, such as "whiter than white", "tell a white lie" and "wave the white flag". Do you want to improve your English today? Then visit: https://www.anglopod.com/ to learn English ON DEMAND.0:05 whiter than white0:40 tell a white lie1:41 look as white as a sheet2:01 wave the white flag2:34 a white elephantLEARN ENGLISH with Dan:https://www.anglopod.com/https://www.youtube.com/@anglopodhttps://instagram.com/anglopod

In this English lesson, we're going to learn some very common idioms and expressions using the colour RED, such as "catch someone red-handed", "paint the town red" and "like a red rag to a bull". Do you want to improve your English today? Then visit: https://www.anglopod.com/ to learn English ON DEMAND.0:09 catch someone red-handed0:40 red-blooded1:01 paint the town red1:29 like a red rag to a bull1:56 see red2:12 red tape2:51 show someone the red card3:23 be in the redLEARN ENGLISH with Dan:https://www.anglopod.com/https://www.youtube.com/@anglopodhttps://instagram.com/anglopod

In this English lesson, we're going to learn some very popular idioms using the word COLOUR or expressions about colour, such as "see someone's true colours", "pass with flying colours" and "nail your colours to the mast". Do you want to improve your English today? Then visit: https://www.anglopod.com/ to learn English ON DEMAND.0:11 see someone's true colours0:59 give something more colour1:32 add a splash of colour2:09 pass with flying colours2:37 nail your colours to the mast3:26 colourless3:50 colourful4:15 off colour4:49 show the colour of your moneyLEARN ENGLISH with Dan:https://www.anglopod.com/https://www.youtube.com/@anglopodhttps://instagram.com/anglopod

Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to learn about the future perfect tense, both simple and continuous. This might seem difficult, but really it’s quite easy. Let’s find out more…So far, we have learnt about the present perfect and the past perfect. Now we need to talk about the future perfect. Just to review, we use the present perfect to talk about a period of time in the past up to the present and we use the past perfect to talk about a period of time in the past up to another point in the past.The future perfect works in the same way. We use it to talk about a period of time up to a point in the future. Let’s see an example. “By midnight, I WILL HAVE FINISHED my homework”.So this period of time starts from now and finishes at a point in the future, in this example ‘by midnight’. My homework is not finished yet. I’m still doing my homework. I still have a lot of homework to do. But at some time between now and midnight, my homework will be complete. “By midnight, I WILL HAVE FINISHED my homework”.We can use the future perfect in the continuous form as well. We could say: “By midnight, I WILL HAVE BEEN STUDYING for hours”. This is a great way to show the continuous action of studying and also to emphasise how much I have been working. To make the future perfect simple, just use WILL with the auxiliary verb HAVE and the past participle, in this case FINISHED. To make the future perfect continuous, just use WILL with the auxiliary verb HAVE and then BEEN with the present participle of the main verb, in this case STUDYING.By next month, you WILL HAVE LEARNT a lot more English if you go to ANGLOPOD.COM. Good luck and see you soon!Learn more: https://www.anglopod.com

Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to look at how we talk about the future in English. In fact, that last sentence includes one of our examples, GOING TO. So how do we really talk about the future in English?The first thing to note is that English does not really have a future tense. We have a present tense, a past tense, and a perfect tense, but we don’t really have a future tense.What I mean is we don’t change the verbs in English to express the future as many other languages do. So we have to add other words to a verb to express the future. The most common words we use are WiLL and GOING TO, but we also use the present continuous when we want to talk about the future.Firstly, we use GOING TO a lot when talking about the future. I’m GOING TO do this, I’m GOING TO do that. This sounds like you’re sure, you have decided, you have made a plan. For example, “I’m GOING TO spend my holiday in Mexico this year”. So we use GOING TO for a plan or intention.However, we use the present continuous to talk about the future when there is a definite arrangement, for example: “I AM FLYING to Mexico next week”. This is an arrangement because you have bought a ticket. This is not just GOING TO happen, but it IS HAPPENING, so we use the present continuous in this case to talk about a future arrangement.As you can see in this example, the present continuous doesn’t really express the future, but the words ‘next week’. They are very important so we know when this thing is happening. So that’s why we don’t really have a future tense in English!Finally, let’s look at an example with WILL. A lot of people think that WILL is the future in English, but really the modal verb WILL is used to mean many different things and so it is overused by students when talking about the future.A lot of students say I WILL do this or I WILL do that, but really this is wrong. It sounds a bit strange. That’s why we use it with other words like MAYBE or PROBABLY. So for example: “Maybe I WILL do this”, “I WILL probably do that”.We tend to use WILL just to make predictions about the future or when we’re not sure about the future. We also use it when we’re still thinking about the future.So, now you know how to talk about the future, I hope you are GOING TO go to ANGLOPOD.COM to practise your English. Good luck and see you soon!Learn more: https://www.anglopod.com

Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to look at the difference between the past perfect and past simple tenses in English. Why do we need these two tenses? How do we use them? Let’s find out more…We saw in an earlier lesson that we use the past simple to talk about something that is finished in the past, normally with a time reference that shows us exactly when this finished event happened in the past.However, sometimes we need to talk about more than one event that happened in the past. If they happened at the same time, we can just use the past simple for both events. For example: “When I ARRIVED at the party, John LEFT”.Here, there are two verbs, both in the past simple, ARRIVED and LEFT. But using the past simple for both events sounds like they happened together, at the same time. Also, it sounds like they are connected. It sounds like John LEFT because I ARRIVED.So sometimes we need to express that two things happened in the past but at different times and maybe there is no connection. That’s why we need the past perfect. For example: “When I ARRIVED, John HAD LEFT”. ARRIVED is past simple, but HAD LEFT is past perfect. This means that John left first and then I arrived later, so there is probably no connection between these two events now.We also saw in an earlier lesson that we make the present perfect with the auxiliary verb HAVE and the past participle of the main verb. Making the past perfect is very similar. We use the past of the auxiliary verb HAVE, which of course is HAD, and then we add the past participle of the main verb. So in this example, HAD LEFT.Learn more about English tenses at ANGLOPOD.COM. Good luck and see you soon!Learn more: https://www.anglopod.com

Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to look at the difference between ALREADY, STILL and YET in English. These three words certainly cause lots of problems for most people learning English, but together we will understand it much better!Here’s an example with STILL. You could say: “I am STILL doing my homework”. STILL means that the situation is not finished, it is continuing. Note that STILL goes after the auxiliary verb BE but before the main verb in the present continuous, for example ‘am STILL doing’.But if you use STILL with the present perfect, then STILL goes before the auxiliary verb HAVE, like this: “I STILL haven’t done my homework”.YET has a very similar meaning to STILL, but we use it in negative sentences and questions to talk about something that is not finished.Here are two examples with YET. You could say: “I haven’t done my homework YET” or you could ask the question “Have you done your homework YET?”Here’s an example with ALREADY. You could say: “I have ALREADY done my homework”. ALREADY is used to talk about something that finished before now or before people expected.Have you been to ANGLOPOD.COM YET? If you’ve ALREADY been, that’s great! Keep going back to improve your English. If you STILL haven’t been, then what are you waiting for? See you soon!Learn more: https://www.anglopod.com